A worm fed on the heart of Corinth

Item

Title

A worm fed on the heart of Corinth

Identifier

1464.jpg
IRIWM_1_229.jpg

Creator

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)

Abstract

First draft in pencil with pencil alteration on the back of a half page of small printed paper headed 'The Y. M. C. A. with H. M. Troops'. Contains two extra cancelled lines. Corinth, Babylon and Rome were cities which fell partly due to inner corruption. Corinth was associated with loose living.

Date

May 1916 - June 1916?

Date Created

1916-05-01

Temporal Coverage

1916-06-30

Spatial Coverage

England or France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Subject

Allied Forces
Fighting Men
Western Front